Until recently there had been little to need to examine the nature of religious identity and ... stand apart as distinctive times in history. Most notable among these were the late Hellenistic period ...

The 16th century was the age of the European Reformation ... spiralled into a religious movement known as Protestantism - named after Luther's "protest". Luther, a gifted Renaissance scholar ...

The so-called Counter- or Catholic Reformation has traditionally been viewed as a ... and will be especially useful in a number of courses in history and religion. View Early Modern Catholicism in the ...